5-Factor Fitness: The Eva Mendes Story

It looks like Eva Mendes has jumped on the 5-Factor Fitness bandwagon and is looking great for it. According to Life and Style Weekly, she's dropped 10 to15 pounds, she's toned, and she's changed her life style which really is the key to successful dieting. By successful I mean losing the weight and keeping it off.

Eva has joined ranks with other 5-Factor devotees and Hollywood lovelies like Halle Berry, Eve, Orlando Bloom and Benjamin Bratt. Uh huh - the 5 factors are not just for the ladies. To learn about 5-Factor read more

The 5-Factor Fitness is a fairly uncomplicated regimen of 3 meals and 2 snacks daily, consisting of: low-fat protein, fiber, healthy carbs and fats, and a sugar-free drink with every meal. The work out is an integral part of the plan to take the weight off and keep it off. But it is reasonable, combining both strength and cardio in each session of 25 minutes of daily exercise. The plan seems pretty sensible to me.

Check out books by Harley Pasternak the physiologist behind 5-Factor Fitness here. His book the 5-Factor Diet comes out on 12/26/2006.